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1st point : Tupac died in 96. Did he ever really have cultural sovereignty over his own art? Hip hop is arguably a postmodern form of music - a rejection of Modernism. Postmodernism criticises Modernism's cultural democratization through ironic appropriation of older cultures to create commodified products out of artistic expression. Read "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Jameson.
2nd : "Settlers" by Sakai showed the colonial imperial attitude that built America was replaced by a labour aristocracy that has continued into neocolonialism. America became the cultural hegemony that dominates capitalist mass media exported around the globe. Hollywood cinema, streaming services, and social media are all American based corporate products. Arguably only China has its own ecosystem of mass media.
American settler culture has a motive to support the American capitalist class: creation of a racial hierarchy internally, rejection and denigration of other cultures, etc.
Postmodernism is a petty bourgeois movement funded by the CIA. Why would you recommend that book on lemmygrad?
Jameson is critical of Postmodernism in the book.
oohh I see. Thank you for replying.